Ep.98 N:OW.2025.JAN28 Deep Seek, Starman the Asteroid, AI's as Humans, Black Holes, Longevity Agents, National Archives, Supersonic X-59

Unraveling Deep Seek, Unlikely Asteroid, Communicating with AI's as Humans, Countless more Black Holes, Longevity Agents, The National Archive Needs You, X-59Most certainly the big story for us this week is the release of the Chinese AI, “DeepSeek,’ taking the AI universe by storm, or at least tempest, by being just as good and way cheaper than the best of the current US AI offerings. Naturally we get our fav AI hosts, “Larry and Mary” to host a section explaining Deep Seek to our audience. And we get into this deeply as with the advent of smart AI agents of all kinds just coming over our current event horizon. Should we treat them as people, after all they sound like they are.. More black holes than ever also seem to be up for us to consider this week, and an unlikely character appears, cleverly disguised as an asteroid!  We had fun, and so will you!
artistic closeup of space sportscar orbiting the solar system

Ep.94 N:OW.2024.DEC31 Chinese Hacking, Interactive AI, JWST, Larry&Mary, 2024 Best Science News

Best stories of 2024, JWST Discoveries, Universal "ISness", Interview with Halle Blessing and Teresa Bell on Bliss Mountain, Interactive AI Experiment 
Welcome to our last show of 2024, where we recall some of our fav stories of the year, from quantum computing to the James West Space Telescope findings, to microtubules and the seat of consciousness in the New Years with Hallelujah Blessing and Teresa Bell.
Dance Party NEW YEAR with Halle Blessing and Taressa Bell
And let us not forget the “ISness” as defined by one of our guests this week, none other than Hallelujah Blessing, co-creator of the Bliss Mountain Retreat in beautiful Lake County, California. He is joined by his beloved, Teresa Bell, who sings a blessing for the new year before sharing with us a little about who and what she and Hallelujah are creating. We also have history with them from their days in Santa Cruz, where we shared many adventuers with them, some of which we share in this week’s podcast. I think you’ll also like our little experiment with “Larry and Mary,” our favorite AI hosts, where we test out their new interactive mode! Enjoy.

Ep.86 N:OW.2024.NOV05 Election Highlights, Planet of Mice, Dwarf 3 SpaceCam, UAP Hunters, AI News, Moon News

Election High/Low Lights, Fav Propositions, Planet of the Mice, ISS Voting, Dwarf 3 new giant among amateur astrophotographers/UAP Hunters, Fun with new AI Agent, NASA Lunar South Pole Landing Sites Chosen  
Given where we are, how could we not have our version of an election show? Well, we did include some election stories, but with results (from the future, of course!) And a talkative AI to help us with the finer points.  And a story on how the astronauts on the ISS got their votes in on time, without resorting to paper ballots! 
The Dwarf 3, the world’s smallest smartest telescope so far!
Also highlighted this week is our AI ‘Larry and Mary” story on stem cell hybridization of our species; also a look at the Dwarf 3, a $500 smart telescope that blew us away with it’s portability and quality shooting of the cosmos, and a look at NASA’s choice of Lunar South Pole landing spots for the manned Artemis III mission coming up in a few years.  Enjoy!
Artemis III Moon Landing Regions

Ep.85 N:OW.2024.OCT29 AppleM4, Lonely Quasars, AI SciFi, Interviews, RecoveringVegan, SpyForGod, Andrew & Connie

Apple's M4 AI , mysterious lonely Quasars, update on The Line, Larry and Mary take us on a journey into The Time Tunnel, Why AI's don't see optical illusions, Giselle on being a recovering vegan, Mercury as a spy for God, Andrew and Connie on the divine awakening of the human heart
Taylor opens the show with a download on the latest M4 Apple products and why you want an M4 processor - Apple Intelligence. You want Apple Intelligence, don’t you? Then get your M4 machine today and you will be merging with the machine ahead of the pack. Think local intelligence, not simply cloud intelligence..
The famous set of “The Time Tunnel” (1966)
Guest AI hosts, Larry and Mary, feature a ‘deep dive’ into the classic SciFi TV show, “The Time Tunnel”, leading to an enticing conversation on time travel. If you could change the past, would you?
Our science  stories this week reach into deep space with lonely quasars and their hungry supermassive black holes to an update on the Saudi city of the future, The Line, and why AI’s don’t get optical illusions, until now..  We also feature exerpts from three interviews we recently conducted, with Gissell Bisson on being a recovering vegan, and the importance of oils, Astrologer Michael Mercury on being a spy for God, and filmmakers Andrew Cameron Bailey and Connie Baxter Marlow on the global awakening of the human heart..finally! Enjoy.
 
lonely supermassive black hole-powered quasars in the early universe

Ep.082 N:OW.2024.OCT08 Hacking AIs, Nuclear Thunderstorms, Navigating the Milky Way, Interviews with Evolutionary Agents

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Hacking AI's for fun, U-2 Explores Nuclear Thunderstorms, Dynamic 3D Navigation of Milky Way, Exciting Fruit Fly Brain Map, Michael Mercury Astrology, Andrew B and Connie BM on their new Australian film, First signs of Apple Intelligence, 6th Sense discovered in Geckos
The most fun AI Hack of the week was fooling Google NotebookLM’s virtual talk show hosts into thinking that they were humans that discovered they were actually AI’s, and it was time to turn off. A hilarious comedic skit!
 
 Also fascinating this week is NASA’s discovery that large thunderstorms are emitting gamma radiation! They discovered this by flying a repurposed U-2 spy plane over many thunderstorms with very sensitive radiation detectors. What could this mean?  What’s fun to play with now is a detailed 3D navigable map of our very own Milky Way Galaxy, courtesy of the Euopean Space Organization.
 
If you enjoyed  exploring Google Earth, you’ll love checking out our galaxy! And speaking of cool maps, there is the first complete 3D map of a fruit fly brain, with 60% shared DNA with humans! Over ten years in the making this interactive map/simulator of brain function will no doubt blaze a fiery trail of cognitive understanding..
 
Also in this episode we feature excerpts from two full length interviews we recently conducted with Michael Mercury, noted astrologer and deep thinker, and consciousness documentary team, Andrew Bailey and Connie Baxter Marlow, just back from Australia where they were conducting interview for their latest film, “In Search of the Future, the only way out is up!”   Click on these links if you want to listen to the full interview. Enjoy!

Ep.077 N:OW.2024.AUG27 Maui LIVE: Man of La Mancha starring Richard Cray, AI Latest with Greg Panos, Maui Arts with buds Ed Ellsworth & Jerry Isdale

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Live from Maui with Richard Cray, Man of la Mancha, Greg Panos with the latest in AI music and Avatars, Ed Ellsworth and the Maui Fires, Jerry Isdale on Island tech and the arts 
This week we broadcast from Maui with a wonderful selection of friends who clue us in to what’s happening in this Hawaiian paradise.  It’s been a year since the horrible Lahaina fires and recovery has been slow and agonizing to many.  Ed Ellsworth gives us an update on that situation.  To help recover the Aloha spirit of the island, the Maui Arts and Cultural Center in partnership with The Makana Aloha Foundation and County of Maui Office of Economic Development, sponsored a professional production of the famous Broadway play, Man of la Mancha, starring former Broadway actor/singer Richard Cray, and  Hawaii music legend,  Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom.  Richard is a big fan of our podcast and we interview him about his epic role of Don Quixote, and the play’s ability to lift the spirits of all who see it.  His partner, Greg Panos, shares with us some of the innovations he sees in the use of virtual and augmented reality and AI music and visuals in enhancing a production’s impact.  
Maui maker faire creator Jerry Isdale joins us to share info on Maui arts and tech projects currently underway, his latest works involving dancers, and an update on the formidable looking high tech installations at the top of the local volcano, Haleakalā.  Enjoy!
Episode 77 Show Links August 27, 2024
 

Ep.076 N:OW.2024.AUG20 Vacay Bonus Mix: AI & Space News, Analyst Ryan Sarnataro on RFK Jr. Election Impact, & Vacay Best Of Show

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Molecule Reverses Alzheimer's, Guardrail Free Grok-2 AI Imagery, Psyche Rust, Analyst Ryan Sarnataro on RFK Jr. impact on Presidential Election, PLUS VACAY Bonus Mix Show
N:OW Sunday, August 18, 2024
We are briefly back in town, before heading to Maui for a couple of weeks, enough to produce one local show! If the molecule DDL-920 works for humans as well as mice, beyond slowing cognitive decline it may actually restore memories! I you are excited about creating imagery with AI, consider the new Grok-2 image generator, which has far fewer restriction on what you can create than just about every other offering in the field. And in Space News, it would appear that our super valuable metal asteroid, 16 Psyche is rusting, WTF?
 
Our guest, local RFK Jr. supporter Ryan Sarnataro discusses the upcoming presidential election with us, and helps us understand how RFK Jr. is still relevant in the race, especially in his ability to affect Trump supporters. It has also been said that he has so many skeletons in the closet that if they could all come out and vote, he’d win the election! We look at some of those skeletons as well as the core issues in this scintillating political discussion with Ryan, Bobby, and us. Enjoy!
 
BONUS VACAY EPISODE: Best of the Futures - Interview Excerpts 1.0
N:OW Sunday, August 11, 2024
Listen Now to The Best of the Futures - Interview Excerpts 1.0
For this podcast we are excited to share with you some of our favorite people we have met over the 15 years of our show, audio clips from our Media Time Machine - Serendipitous choices for this podcast include Pharmacist Ben Fuchs, Psychic story maven Penny Kelly, Physicist Nick Herbert, Visionary Humorist Carolyn Casey, Talk Show stimulator Colonel Terry Maxwell, Amanita shamaness Avi Esther, Cosmic Story Editor Nancy Griffith, Life Origins Scientist Bruce Damer, Doc Tom Yarema, Accidental psychic Richard Marriot
 Instead of replaying full live shows, we are taking clips of our various guests and combining them with outtakes of others to create a dynamic interplay of thoughts and ideas that are quite engaging and relevant to what’s happening now.  Enjoy and you’ll hear from us in the future!
Episode 76 Show Links August 20, 2024
 
 

Ep.070 N:OW.2024.JUN18 Kidneys in Space, Questioning Aliens, SETI AI, Summer Solstice Whale Songs with Michelle Newman

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Kidneys in Space, Harvard Advanced Reptilians Theory, Michele Newman and Singing your Soul with Whales, SETI approach for probing advanced AIs, Which came first, Fun or Love?  
It’s Summertime and living is fun, unless you are on a deep space mission.  Turns out our kidneys are particularly sensitive to radiation in space, failing after only two years. Oh no, what now? Any solutions? We think so!
And finally, top academics are suggesting to their brethren that now is the time to consider more expanded concepts of the alien presence.  Ideas like advanced reptilians living underground, staying invisible to the likes of us, trans-dimensional beings moving through space and time in unusual ways,  ships that enter the earth through volcanoes, the ‘other’ intermingling and living with us for generations, doing who knows what to our minds. Science Fiction or Fact? At least such ideas are now being considered more seriously, or at least sincerely. 
 
Time sensitive this week is a sacred whale cruise in the Monterey Bay, hosted by Michele Newman, a psychic, healer, shamanness, and musician of the crystal bowls.  Mrs. Future (Sun) beautifully interviews Michele about this upcoming cruise (Saturday June 22), and if you feel it’s time to connect with Whales in this way, here’s an “Opportunity Knocks” card! :-)
 
Our big AI story this week is about applying the rigorous scientific methods used by SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (to investigating and evaluating) the growing intelligence of the AIs. Not a perfect match, but lots of cross pollination here!
 
And we end with callers, including “Master Now” who answers the question of the hour, “Which came first in the timeline, Love or Fun?”   Enjoy!
Episode 70 Show Links June 18, 2024

Ep.069 N:OW.2024.JUN11 WWDC 2024 Features Apple Intelligence, AI Steve for Parliament, SpaceNews and Future Chickens

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Apple Intelligence and WWDC 2024 Announcements, AI Steve runs for Office, Newly Discovered Alter-Magnetism, Gravity without Mass, Starship 4 Kicks Ass!
Big announcements from Apple at this week’s World Wide Developer’s Conference, and we have our very own Apple analyst, Taylor Barcroft, to cover the latest and greatest, and Bobby Wilder to discuss just what is “Apple Intelligence.” We think it is particularly exciting that developers will be able to employ AI to both make and be in Apple apps!
In Space News, Starship 4 has an amazing flight, Boeing Starliner makes it to the ISS,  Interstellar Clouds may have triggered the last ice age. And then there is gravity without mass, Alter-Magnetism, and AI Steve, running for Parliament in the UK. And then there is Mrs. Future’s plan to raise chickens. Enjoy!
Episode 69 Show Links June 11, 2024

Ep.065 N:OW.2024.MAY14 Auroras and Special Report -Meta.ai and ChatGPT4 Challenge

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Auroras and Special Report- Gabrielle challenges Meta.ai and ChatGPT 4 to compete in understanding the true nature of Reality itself. Guess who is more aware?
This show takes the cake when it comes to more unusual content for us.  It started with our correspondent Gabrielle Cianfrani asking Meta.ai a ‘simple’ question before bed, “I’ve been thinking lately that we are just pure consciousness experiencing itself, what do you think about that?” And Meta.ai did a decent job in answering, “What a profound and intriguing perspective! The idea that we are pure consciousness experiencing itself is a philosophical and metaphysical concept that has been explored in various spiritual and philosophical traditions. This notion suggests that our essence is not solely bound to our physical bodies or minds, but rather we are an expression of a universal, all-encompassing consciousness.”
Gabrielle naturally, took the AI to task, nudging it to go even deeper, by responding, “I think that any time I am not present, truly present, that I am not pure consciousness experiencing itself. I believe that it is consciousness playing a game, a theater, an act. I think that past and future create suffering because they take us away from The only thing that we really know is real which is this moment right now.” How did Meta respond to that? Tune in!  Enjoy...
Episode 65 Show Links May 14, 2024